"Cut, Tear, Scrape, Erase": Notes on Paper in Twentieth-century Drawing

• Autores: Catherine Craft
• Localización: Master drawings, ISSN 0025-5025, Vol. 50, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 161-186
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the role of paper in 20th-century drawing, focusing on artist Jasper Johns. The author explores cutting techniques used by modern artists, including collage and "papiers collés," offering examples from artists including Pablo Picasso, Hans Arp, and Henri Matisse. The author discusses techniques using torn papers, including Cubist "papiers collés," offering examples from artists including Kurt Schwitters, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Motherwell, as well as describing Arp's Dada artwork. The author also focuses on Johns' techniques of scraping and discusses the practice of erasing, focusing on the "Erased de Kooning Drawing" made in 1953 by Robert Rauschenberg.